[AccessD] RE: Using Dates

I think I finally "got it".  This is joined to any date to pull out the
various pieces needed?  Then you build a function to populate this thing for
the dates that your app needs?  

I think I might just appreciate this one!  ;-)

John W. Colby
The database guy


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert L. Stewart [mailto:rl_stewart at highstream.net]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:58 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Cc: JColby at dispec.com
Subject: Re: Using Dates


Actually, you have a "standard" date dimension table that everyone uses and 
the overhead is minimal.

At 12:00 PM 1/30/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:58:44 -0500
>From: "Colby, John" <JColby at dispec.com>
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Dates
>To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
>         <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
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>I have to assume though that you only create these as required for
>reporting?  The overhead would be enormous otherwise.
>
>John W. Colby